Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 2 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 3 | The custom originated in the first half of the nineteenth century and has largely died out , but at Saddleworth a very large procession takes place on the Friday after Whitsuntide . |
| 4 | As we have noted , surveys on the poll tax conducted in the first half of 1990 mapped not only the considerable public hostility to the tax , but also the fact that the blame for it was firmly laid at the government 's door . |
| 5 | Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year . |
| 6 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 7 | The decision , taken in advance of the fourth party congress scheduled for the first half of 1991 , was thought to be primarily a cost-cutting exercise in response to the deepening economic crisis , as the country 's preferential trading terms with the Soviet Union and other COMECON countries were about to expire ; commentators also viewed the changes as concentrating power within the party in fewer hands . |
| 8 | Did n't we have a perfectly good penalty appeal disallowed in the first half ? |